“I want you baby, I love you so much”: Woman thinks she's having a love affair with Brad Pitt and gets scammed out of €830,000

Anne, a 53-year-old interior designer, was the victim of a huge scam on social media. A scammer pretended to be Brad Pitt. screenshot – TF1/MAXPPP

Anne, a 53-year-old interior designer, was the victim of a huge scam on social media. A scammer extorted 830,000 euros from her by pretending to be a Brad Pitt in love with her. The fifty-year-old testified in Sept à huit on TF1 this Sunday, January 12, 2025.

She would never have thought of such a scam, and yet. Anne, an interior designer and mother with an uneventful life, fell for a love scam worthy of a Hollywood script.

She agreed to tell her story in Sept à huit on TF1 this Sunday, January 12, 2025.

It all begins in February 2023, in Tignes. Anne is on vacation with her husband and daughter. She signs up for Instagram for the first time in her life to post holiday photos.

She is then contacted by a woman, who claims to be Jane Etta Pitt and who tells her that her son needs a “woman like her”. The next day, she receives a new message from the one she believes to be Brad Pitt: “Hello Anne, my mother has told me a lot about you. I would like to know more”.

He knew how to “talk to women”

Initially convinced that he is a “fake”, she nevertheless begins to exchange with him every day and to “become friends”, recounts the subject of Sept à Huit.

These messages come at the right time: Anne's love story, married to a millionaire entrepreneur, is floundering. “I loved the man I was talking to. He knew how to talk to women, it was always very well done.” The fifty-year-old is as if bewitched.

She even receives a deep fake, a video montage based on AI where the fake Brad Pitt reassures her when she doubts and tells her that he will come see her in France.

“Will you marry me ?”

Before the vast scam begins, he will even ask her: “Will you marry me ?”

Customs fees for gifts, advance medical expenses, eight months of scam will follow. In the fall of 2023, the real Brad Pitt is everywhere with his new conquest. In the summer of 2024, Anne no longer believes this story at all and files a complaint.

Devastated

She was scammed out of a total of 830,000 euros and no longer has a roof over her head. Devastated by this story, she attempted suicide three times. “I've never hurt anyone in my life. These people deserve hell. We have to find these crooks,” she testified in Sept à Huit.